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...Three months ago the FBI believed his capture was imminent. Today his trail is as cold as a misty winter's morning in his native Smoky Mountains. Even the report that a truck registered to Rudolph had run a Colorado roadblock on April Fool's Day hasn't changed the feds' belief that Rudolph could just as easily be holed up under a rock (or in an empty holiday house) in the harsh mountain forests of Cherokee County, S.C., as he could be basking on a California beach. "Early on the FBI was very confident of capturing him," says TIME...
Science has not reached the stage where chimerical human organisms could readily be created, but beneficial progress in that area of research could still have continued. The danger now is that researchers might feel they have a permanent roadblock and discontinue their efforts--silenced by one of their...
...bricks, bottles and bullets. "There's one, that's a white one!" a black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them out of the way. I heard gunfire. I saw a police officer and I screamed...
...newest roadblock the masters have thrown up to universal keycard access is the College's policy that there be two locked doors between the street and every student's room. Fine, the two-door policy sounds good on admissions tours, and seems to make some safety sense. But who ever called for the locks to be removed? Our point--the students' point--all along has been that giving all Harvard students access to an entryway door does not diminish the degree to which that door can be considered locked. If anything, because we will be naturally both more likely...
...than 80 suspected areas for clandestine storage of the killer bugs and recently have been trying to get into presidential offices and Republican Guard and intelligence bases where some bioweapons may be concealed. Richard Butler, executive chairman of the Special Commission, thinks the Iraqis may have raised the latest roadblock to the inspectors because they were getting close to their target...